Work Trends
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Diminished Lives and Futures: A Portrait of America in the Great-Recession Era
Feb 06, 2013Explores Americans' experiences during and after the Great Recession, including their assessments of the labor market and economy, the impact of the recession on their finances, and causes of high unemployment.
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Left Out. Forgotten? Recent High School Graduates and the Great Recession
Jun 06, 2012Documents the severe problems that graduates from the high school classes of 2006 through 2011 have encountered. Examines the experiences of high school graduates in the labor market, how well high school graduates feel they were prepared for the job market or attending college, and how recent high school graduates feel about their financial futures.
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Chasing the American Dream: Recent College Graduates and the Great Recession
May 10, 2012Survey of graduates from four-year colleges and universities from the classes of 2006 through 2011. Documents the difficulties young people encountered as they entered a turbulent labor market and recession.
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Categorizing the Unemployed by the Impact of the Recession
Dec 01, 2011Summarizes data on the condition of the unemployed in the United States. Presents a typology, or a way to characterize the experiences of the unemployed.
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Voices of the Unemployed
Sep 01, 2011Provides verbatim comments from participants in an August 2011 survey of American workers who lost a job during the Great Recession. Focuses on what they think government should do to help the unemployed and what one thing they think would be most helpful in getting a new job.
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Out of Work and Losing Hope: The Misery and Bleak Expectations of American Workers
Sep 01, 2011Explores findings from an August 2011 survey of American workers who lost a job during the Great Recession. Focuses on their views of the economy, their financial situation, Unemployment Insurance, and what policymakers should do to help foster economic growth and job creation.
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Unfulfilled Expectations: Recent College Graduates Struggle in a Troubled Economy
May 18, 2011Presents the findings of a nationally representative sample of 571 U.S. residents who graduated from a four-year college between 2006 and 2010. Among on other topics, examines how students financed their college education and how much debt they carried away from it, how well college prepared them to enter and be successful in the labor market, and what they would do differently in their college education if they knew then what they know now.
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Unemployed Workers and the Great Recession
Feb 01, 2011Highlights the key findings from the Heldrich Center’s effort to capture the experiences of American workers during the worst labor market in a generation. Reports findings from multiple Work Trends surveys from 2009 and 2010.
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Shattered American Dream: Unemployed Workers Lose Ground, Hope, and Faith in their Futures
Dec 16, 2010Documents dramatic erosion in the quality of life for millions of Americans as a result of the Great Recession. Explores those still unemployed as well as those who have found new jobs, Americans' views of government, and the financial impacts of the recession.
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American Workers Assess an Economic Disaster
Sep 01, 2010Examines Americans' assessments of the future of the economy and the labor market, the impact of the recession on Americans’ finances, causes of unemployment, and national policies and political leaders.
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